We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Dell Avamar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."
"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."
"Bacula is pretty stable."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."
"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"The installation of the solution is easy."
"We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."
"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"Bacula needs a graphical user interface because, for administrators, the command-line interface is okay, but for the average user it is not very easy."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 31st in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Veritas NetBackup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Bacula Enterprise vs. Dell Avamar report.
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